The former state care center in Kindberg is to be converted into accommodation for asylum seekers who need medical care. Negotiations are still ongoing, but criticism is already pouring down.
Austria is currently confronted with a new wave of refugees. This apparently means that the Ministry of the Interior is feverishly looking for new accommodation options. One of them could soon be created in Styria. As was announced on Friday, asylum accommodation is to be set up in the former state care center in Kindberg in Upper Styria. According to the responsible federal care agency (BBU), primarily for asylum seekers with medical care needs – such as sick, old or disabled people. “We need more capacity and would rather have that today than tomorrow, but we are still in the middle of the negotiations,” says BBU spokesman Thomas Fussenegger on the “Steirerkrone”. does not exist yet. The mayor of the city of 8,000, Christian Sander, was also surprised by the plans while on vacation: “Our deputy mayor was called by the Ministry of the Interior on Friday and confronted with the project,” Sander said about the “Krone”. He had to find out most of it himself from the newspaper. But what the local chief can say with certainty: “The building is desolate and needs to be renovated.” The former care center was closed in early 2018 and bought by a Graz real estate company. FPÖ announces resistance to heavy headwinds is already coming from the FPÖ: “With parliamentary initiatives and inquiries at state and federal level, we will examine these contracts in detail and question what investments are necessary to refurbish the empty building,” says FPÖ security spokesman Hannes Amesbauer In autumn, a few kilometers away, the reopening of the asylum accommodation in Steinhaus am Semming caused a stir.
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